Archie H. Wills, All in a Lifetime; War, 1914-1918: Into the Unknown - War. 1914-1918; 1970s WWI/Personal External Source Chapter from Archie Wills unpublished autobiography All in a Lifetime: "As I cleaned up my affairs before embarking on the Great Adventure of War, I began to realize that I knew very little about the business of killing other men and being charged with murder. I had heard my Father speak about the South African War and the Russo-Japanese War and I learned from my school books about the great battles ... as I was to find out they were small affairs when compared to the prolonged agony of the First World War ..."